Posts have migrated

I have migrated all of the Charlie related posts from the hooper cob webs site to the Charlie Hooper Central blog. I wanted to have a place where all of his pictures and memories could be viewed in one place. Plus I can reclaim my personal blog for myself!

7 months

Above is a picture of Charlie and me from Colin's baby shower this past Sunday. Here is the link to more pictures including one of Colin himself. Colin Scarborough's baby shower.

It's hard to believe that Charlie is already 7 months old. Right now he is teething and trying to crawl. The poor child is constantly stuffed up and currently has ear infections in both ears. That should make our trip to South Bend this weekend kinda rough with a sick kid on a plane. Luckily ear infections are not contagious so I don't feel too bad about exposing the other passengers to him.

I had to take Charlie to the Doctor yesterday for his ears. Since they pulled ALL of the infant decongestants off the market we have to spend $40 and 2 1/2 hours at the ped's office just to get a bottle of Tussin 12-D! I feel really bad for the child fatalities with the PediaCare and other meds, but... Obviously those parents were not smart about medicating their little ones. Now the FDA has to pull all of those meds because of parents OD-ing their children. I haven't heard, but I hope that they eventually come back over the counter. Peanut butter did, so these will too hopefully.

Charlie Jump Up

Whoa did August fly by or what? It was a super fast month, but Chad and Charlie and I managed to get away for a long weekend in Fredericksburg, Texas and this past weekend we spent in Coleman Texas at our Brother in law's ranch. This is a picture of Charlie hanging out at the ranch in his "Johnny Jump up." He loves to bounce in that thing, he giggles and grins! It is too cute. If you click the "Chad's Picasa Link" off to the right there are more photos of the kiddo and the family at the ranch.

First Dip in the Pool

Yesterday Chad, Mary and I took Charlie up to Willowbrook for his first dip in the pool. I have a pool pouch from hotslings so Charlie was right at home in his sling as we waded into the pool. We stayed out there for 4+ hours. Charlie napped and the adults ate lunch and read chapters of Hary Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We are hoping to enroll in water baby classes at the end of this month. The Water baby classes are for babies 6 months and older here at the TJC swimming pool.

Batman

Charlie has these fantastic onsies from Six Flags that he received as a gift from Casey and Kelly Heying (owners of buymetoys.com) This past weekend we dressed him up as batman while Uncle Brad was in town for the Baptism. Charlie looks so serious as the Dark Knight, don't you think? There are more pictures of Charlie as Batman and of his baptism under Angela's Picassa Web Album (look for link to the right).

Smiling Face

This is my favorite picture of Charlie so far.

A Tired Mommy

Well two and a half months have flown by since Charlie was born and this is my official first week back at work. Yesterday was the first day of day care and I CRIED all day after leaving him. I never thought I would be such a sappy parent. Chad said that I am cute when I am weepy :) I realized that I have neglected my blog and need to get back to it. This tired mommy needs to carve out a little non-baby time so I can read whats going on in the world and then make fun of it all in my blog postings. For now I will post links to the latest and greatest web photo albums and shamelessly promote my offspring.

Welcome Charlie

Charles Jay Hooper (Charlie) was born on 3/22/07 weighing 7lbs 8oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. We had what has been described as a "hard and fast labour." Contractions started at 3:00am on Thursday. By the time we were admitted at 8am I was dilated to 8cm and received an epidural. By 11am I was 10cm and ready to push, but little Charlie never "dropped" into the birth canal after 5 hours of pitocin and intermittent pushing. Charlie was born at 6:02pm by C-Section. Chad and I are both home and learning the ropes of new parenthood. A big THANK YOU to our friends, family and co-works for being so supportive and for welcoming Charlie into the world. He has many friends that I can't wait for him to meet. We hope to start having visitors at the end of the week (3/30/07), give us a call if you would like to stop by.

Any day now...

I should pop any day now... But this child hasn't budged and I swear I will end up with an April Baby! I refuse to post any pictures of me incredibly pregnant. My face is as rounds as a melon! Chad and I were joking last night about ways to bring on labor. Forget spicy food, or marthon walking, our favorites are jumping on a trampoline, or using a plunger!

The best part - The Nursery

The best part about the last trimester of pregnancy has to be putting the nursery together. Above is a picture of the crib and the bedding. Chad and I went to Dallas yesterday to pick it up and Mike and Mary helped Chad put it together in the newly painted guest bedroom/nursery. I still have little things to do in there like hang the quilt and pictures, fix the curtain tie-backs and general nesting things, but I still have some time. I am sure it will be perfect when it's all done. I'l post more pictures when it is complete.

Belly shot

A few people have requested pictures of me fat. Gee thanks. I decided to put this one belly shot from Christmas Eve 2006 up on the site. I was 27 weeks or a little more then 6 months along. The suit jacket I wore over the shell hid my fat nicely ;)